Procter & Gamble Manufacturing Co. v. United States

The whaling company Rosshavet of Sandefjord, Norway, entered into a contract at Bergen, Norway, on November 30, 1929, in and by which said contract the Rosshavet company sold a cargo of whale oil to appellant, the Procter & Gamble Manufacturing Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio. By the terms of the written contract between the parties, the oil was to be produced upon the floating ship factory, the C. A. Larsen, and was to be obtained during the season 1929 and 1930 from the Ross Sea in the Antarctic Ocean and that vicinity. The oil was estimated to arrive at an American port to be selected by the *417buyer,…